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- Learn to plan and design multi-agent solutions in Microsoft Copilot Studio. Evaluate when multi-agent approaches are appropriate, design solutions using child agents or connected agents, and select the right connection option and coordination pattern for your scenario.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe the benefits and tradeoffs of multi-agent architectures compared to single-agent solutions.
- Evaluate when to use multi-agent solutions based on complexity, team ownership, and governance requirements.
- Determine when child agents are the right multi-agent approach and how to scope them effectively.
- Determine when connected agents are needed and select the appropriate connection option based on agent source and ownership.
- Compare orchestrator/subagent and workflow-oriented patterns to select the appropriate coordination approach for connected agents.
- Learn to structure complex Copilot Studio agents using child agents. Create focused subagents, configure how they receive tasks and return results, and control when they're invoked to build organized, scalable agent solutions.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe the purpose and benefits of child agents within a Copilot Studio agent.
- Create a child agent and configure its name, description, and instructions.
- Configure inputs and outputs on a child agent to pass and receive structured data with the parent agent.
- Configure when and how a child agent is invoked.
- Manage child agents by enabling, disabling, redirecting to, and deleting them from the parent agent.
- Learn to build multi-agent solutions in Copilot Studio by connecting your orchestrator to existing agents built on Microsoft's agentic platform. Configure connections to Copilot Studio agents, Microsoft Foundry agents, and Microsoft Fabric Data agents, and manage your connected agent ecosystem for accurate orchestration.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Connect an agent to an existing published Copilot Studio agent.
- Connect a Microsoft Foundry agent to a Copilot Studio orchestrator.
- Connect a Microsoft Fabric Data agent to a Copilot Studio orchestrator to enable natural language queries over Fabric data sources.
- Manage connected agents in Copilot Studio.
- Learn to integrate cross-platform agents into your Copilot Studio solution using the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. Understand when A2A is the right integration choice, configure connections to external A2A-enabled agents with authentication, and validate end-to-end agent delegation.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol and how it enables cross-platform agent integration.
- Compare A2A with MCP and other integration approaches to determine when A2A is the appropriate choice.
- Connect a Copilot Studio agent to an external A2A-enabled agent.
- Configure authentication for an A2A connection.
- Validate an A2A connection by testing agent delegation and evaluating A2A message payload structure.
